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Welcome to the first-ever Specul8 Christmas Annual, our shiny new tradition of unwrapping the weird and wonderful. Inside, you'll find all the winning entries from the 2025 Specul8 Flash Fiction Challenge, proving once and for all that you don't need a novel to knock someone off their chair. These stories are bold, bizarre, and occasionally bite back -- courtesy of creative lunatics and dreamers from every corner of the planet. Go on, dive in. It's Christmas. What could possibly go wrong?